U+1F7AF "🞯" Light Five Spoked Asterisk Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🞯
U+1F7AF "🞯" Light Five Spoked Asterisk is a typographic symbol that resembles a traditional asterisk but features five thinner, evenly spaced spokes radiating from a central point, drawn with a lighter or more delicate stroke weight compared to its solid or bold counterparts. Belonging to the Geometric Shapes Extended Unicode block, this character is primarily used in decorative text, mathematical notation, or as an ornamental marker to denote footnotes, emphasis, or directional cues in documents and digital content, where its open, airy design provides a subtle visual break without overwhelming the surrounding text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F7AF |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Light Five Spoked Asterisk |
| Block | Geometric Shapes Extended |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🞯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🞯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9E 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDFAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F7AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udfaf |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |